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Folklore
- the traditional art, literature, knowledge, and practice
- disseminated largely through oral communication and behavioral example
- part of every group with an identity
- what people believem do, know, make, and say
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Folkloristics
the study of folklore and folklife
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Tangible Cultural Heritage
- elements of the built world deemed to have “universal cultural value.”
- what people have made or make
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Intangible Cultural Heritage
- the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills (and objects of the built world associated with them) that are culturally recognized
- transmitted between generations
- recreated in reaction to environment, nature, and history
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Cultural Landscapes
places and landscapes that have been shaped or influenced by human occupation.
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Nostalgia
A yearning to manifest in the present and carry into the future a quality or feeling from the past, real or imagined.
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memory
- retaining and recalling past experiences
- fallible, edited with each recall
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enchantment
- captivation, great liking and connection
- holds spellbound, enamoured
- a psychological state induced by a magical spell
- dreamy or alternatively makes us acutely focussed
- not always positive (fear, paranoia, disillusionment)
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disenchantment
- characterizing folklore as old and peasant
- allows for justification of a clockwork (mechanistic) universe
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magic
- the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will
- any act intended to cause change
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praxis
- a complex activity by which individuals create culture and society, and become critically conscious human beings
- a cycle of action-reflection-action
- willful, controlled, and intentional
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characteristics of praxis
- self-determination
- intentionality
- creativity
- rationality
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spell
anglo-saxon word meaning "history"
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spell book
a witch's personal magical history
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disenchanted (modern) landscape
- sense of alienation, estrangement, and loss of meaning
- non-participating consciousness
- obsessive materialism
- all acts are projects which are measured for their success
- economic and environmental chaos
- master narratives
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master narrative
- totalizing ideological systems
- claim to contain all the answers to everything
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fakelore
- mechanism of disenchantment
- appropriation and distortion of folk figures for national or commercial agendas
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disengaged consciousness (aka psychic dismemberment)
- separation of mind and body in Western thought
- alienation of the mind-self because the individual experiences life as an observer rather than a participant
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participating consciousness
engagement of the self with life
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alchemy
philosophical metaphor for the transformation of the self in the process of psychic self-realization
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dialectics
a method of reasoning that compares and contrasts opposing points of view in order to find a new point of view that will incorporate whatever is true in the originals
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thesis and antithesis
the opposing points of view in dialectic reasoning
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synthesis
the new point of view that emerges out of dialectic reasoning
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clockwork universe
- people could know everything there is to know by reason alone
- dreams and imagination cannot be trusted because they are irrational
- life exists only if quantifiable therefore purpose is to measure and calculate life
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initiation
demands submission, relinquishment of control, and immersion into the deeper mysteries
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